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New Orleans is doing its part to alleviate a severe doctor shortage that exists today in Costa Rica.
The Louisiana State university medical school in New Orleans, after assisting in planning the new Costa Rican medical school, is now supplying teachers and teacher-training courses for qualified Costa Rican medical students.
"Costa Rica/' explains Dr. William W. Frye, dean of the LSU School of Medicine, "was, until March of this year, the only Central American country with no medical school. Interested students had to train in other Latin American countries, in Europe, or in the United States. Only one-third of these students finished their studies, the rest giving up at one stage or another.
"The consequence was an extreme shortage of doctors. In 1955, there was approximately one doctor to 2630 people! In this whole country, with almost a million people, there were only 357 doctors, and most of them were in the San Jose area/'
By 1961, medical authorities in Costa Rica estimate, 875 physicians will be needed for approximately one and a quarter million people—or 518 more than the country had in 1955.
Ho
low does LSU fit into the Costa Rica program?
"We had close contact with clinical medicine in Costa Rica," explains Dr. Frye, "because of a training program in tropical medicine and para-sitology which LSU, along with other medical schools of the United States and Canada, had in Latin America. The program, inaugurated with a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to give practical field experience to teachers, was so successful that the IT. S. Public Health Service granted funds for its continuation in the period from 1958 to 1963.
"Because of LSU's association with officials at the San Juan de Dios hospital and the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica, the university was requested to co-operate in the development of the
country's over-all medical education program," A contract was negotiated between LSU and the International Co-operation Administration, a branch of the 17. S. State Department, whereby the university agreed to furnish general consultation services for Costa Rican medical school planners, assistance in the recruiting of professors for the school, and training-program arrangements for faculty staff members studying in the United States.
After the groundwork had been laid in Costa Rica for the medical school, three Costa Ricans— an architect, a surgeon, and a biologist—were sent to the United States to make plans. LSU served as headquarters for this committee and made arrangements for its members to visit, in addition to its own, the medical schools at Tu-lane, the University of Florida, and the University of Mississippi,
Louisiana consultants helped Costa Rican medical authorities set up their medical training system, which includes two years of pre-med study,
four years of medical school, one year of internship, and one year of service in the country's rural area.
At the present time, two LSU professors are teaching biochemistry and physiology atrthe Costa Rica medical school, and other LSU consultants are scheduled to go south to help plan next year's teaching program.
Four Costa Ricans—three MD's and one miero-biologist—are training at LSU's medical school in the departments of pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, and micro-anatomy. All will return home as professors.
Twelve carefully chosen students are presently enrolled in the Costa Rican medical school, which is scheduled to graduate its first class in March of 1965.
"This medical school/' declares Dr. Frye, "has extremely high standards, and unlike some others in Latin America, is very selective. It can, in my opinion, be a model of educational procedure in Latin America/'

New Orleans is doing its part to alleviate a severe doctor shortage that exists today in Costa Rica.
The Louisiana State university medical school in New Orleans, after assisting in planning the new Costa Rican medical school, is now supplying teachers and teacher-training courses for qualified Costa Rican medical students.
"Costa Rica/' explains Dr. William W. Frye, dean of the LSU School of Medicine, "was, until March of this year, the only Central American country with no medical school. Interested students had to train in other Latin American countries, in Europe, or in the United States. Only one-third of these students finished their studies, the rest giving up at one stage or another.
"The consequence was an extreme shortage of doctors. In 1955, there was approximately one doctor to 2630 people! In this whole country, with almost a million people, there were only 357 doctors, and most of them were in the San Jose area/'
By 1961, medical authorities in Costa Rica estimate, 875 physicians will be needed for approximately one and a quarter million people—or 518 more than the country had in 1955.
Ho
low does LSU fit into the Costa Rica program?
"We had close contact with clinical medicine in Costa Rica," explains Dr. Frye, "because of a training program in tropical medicine and para-sitology which LSU, along with other medical schools of the United States and Canada, had in Latin America. The program, inaugurated with a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to give practical field experience to teachers, was so successful that the IT. S. Public Health Service granted funds for its continuation in the period from 1958 to 1963.
"Because of LSU's association with officials at the San Juan de Dios hospital and the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica, the university was requested to co-operate in the development of the
country's over-all medical education program," A contract was negotiated between LSU and the International Co-operation Administration, a branch of the 17. S. State Department, whereby the university agreed to furnish general consultation services for Costa Rican medical school planners, assistance in the recruiting of professors for the school, and training-program arrangements for faculty staff members studying in the United States.
After the groundwork had been laid in Costa Rica for the medical school, three Costa Ricans— an architect, a surgeon, and a biologist—were sent to the United States to make plans. LSU served as headquarters for this committee and made arrangements for its members to visit, in addition to its own, the medical schools at Tu-lane, the University of Florida, and the University of Mississippi,
Louisiana consultants helped Costa Rican medical authorities set up their medical training system, which includes two years of pre-med study,
four years of medical school, one year of internship, and one year of service in the country's rural area.
At the present time, two LSU professors are teaching biochemistry and physiology atrthe Costa Rica medical school, and other LSU consultants are scheduled to go south to help plan next year's teaching program.
Four Costa Ricans—three MD's and one miero-biologist—are training at LSU's medical school in the departments of pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, and micro-anatomy. All will return home as professors.
Twelve carefully chosen students are presently enrolled in the Costa Rican medical school, which is scheduled to graduate its first class in March of 1965.
"This medical school/' declares Dr. Frye, "has extremely high standards, and unlike some others in Latin America, is very selective. It can, in my opinion, be a model of educational procedure in Latin America/'